If you've imagined the good ship Heart of Gold soaring through space in real life, it might not be just a fantasy for much longer. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk might be naming a spacecraft for the famous ...

This SpaceX graphic depicts the mission profile for the company's Interplanetary Transport System, a colony ship to fly 100 people to Mars at a time. (Image credit: SpaceX) "We need the spaceship ...

"Mars Colonial Transporter" seems like a pretty cool name for a spaceship, but it wasn't quite ambitious enough for SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk. "Turns out MCT can go well beyond Mars, so ...

Permanent Mars colony is 'long way down the road,' NASA says By Mike Wall Space.com Published March 25, 2016 8:22am EDT | Updated April 28, 2016 6:56pm EDT ...

Musk has talked about a Mars colony for years. SpaceX has spent billions of dollars over its roughly 22-year history acquiring the technology and know-how to make it happen.

A Mars colony could also become a profitable concern through: ... Starship, currently being developed at the SpaceX Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, could be like the sailing ship, ...

Musk isn't all talk on this topic; SpaceX is developing a huge, reusable rocket-spaceship combo called the BFR, with the chief aim of making Mars colonization economically feasible.

In a real Mars colony, the housing needs to be dense because everything needs to be inside a bubble. On a cruise ship, the housing needs to be dense because they are trying to fit as many ...

Mars colony could 3D-print stuff from Red Planet dust. ... the Red Planet to print the tools and housing they need to survive without having to lug all the supplies aboard their spaceship.

One of the plotlines for season 4 of the hit TV series “For All Mankind” is an attempt to use a Mars colony as a base to mine the asteroids of the main belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

The fervor of the audience gave the room an electric charge as Musk’s speech got underway; people cheered as he avowed to create a self-sustaining Mars colony of 1 million people over the next ...